Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This guide is designed for domestic violence survivors who are representing themselves, without an attorney, in court cases involving child custody. It includes chapters on finding an attorney, financial considerations, custody and divorce mediation, gathering evidence for trial, unsupervised visitation and safety planning, tips for dealing with custody evaluators, guidelines for selecting an expert witness, relocation, and many more.

This article describes two studies that use scientific criteria to distinguish accidental bruising from abusive bruising. The article also discusses barriers to intervening in or responding to abuse and emphasizes collaboration between prosecutors and victim-witness advocates.

This plan represents the first effort on this scale in North Carolina to address the factors that increase risk for perpetration of intimate partner violence and to promote factors which create healthy, sustainable families and communities. The structure of this document reflects our core commitment„to reach out to every North Carolinian with messaging about healthy relationships, with some specific focus on those groups which carry the heaviest burden of risk for being affected by violence.

As part of CDC’s DELTA program, this plan outlines the state of North Dakota’s plan to improve efforts to prevent intimate partner violence and sexual assault.

This document features a discussion of the basic understanding of the place of religion in addressing domestic violence, illustrated through three western religious traditions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

This free, online VetoViolence course provides educators with a basic knowledge of teen dating violence prevention.

This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies.

This guide outlines the process that The Network/La Red suggests for making domestic violence programs more LGBTQ- inclusive. Each of the chapters focuses on one aspect of that process in detail, offering ideas for implementation.

This fact sheet reviews research on women's experiences of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a focus on gender-based similarities and differences.

This guide focuses on the transformative role of the reproductive health care provider in identifying and addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive coercion.

This summary outlines the purposes and themes of the multi-day discussion that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Themes from the report include how to address men's violence against women and children, issues related to sexuality and gender identity, and other gender equity issues.

Sexual violence in later life is a form of elder abuse. This guide thoroughly investigates the complexity of the topic and includes information on signs and symptoms, special issues facing older victims, and primary prevention techniques.